Scott Mitchell
Scott Mitchell's blog about writing.
Scott On Writing | 02 May 2012 21:43
Scott Mitchell writes "....A couple weeks ago I had a client call me up with a perplexing build error. He had an ASP.NET 4 Web Application project open in Visual Studio 2010 that he was working on when, suddenly, the following error cropped up when building: Resource name..."
Read more » ERROR: Resource name XXX cannot be used more than once
Scott On Writing | 08 Apr 2012 04:02
Scott Mitchell writes "....In a recent project we needed to block a series of IP addresses from accessing our website. IIS makes this easy with its IPv4 Address and Domain Restrictions feature, which lets the webmaster specify specific or ranges of IP addresses that are..."
Read more » Using Log Parser to List All Blocked IP Requests
Scott On Writing | 30 Mar 2012 23:15
Scott Mitchell writes "....ASP.NET has long offered the FileUpload control, which simplifies uploading a file from the client’s computer to the web server’s file system. This control provides a very simple, straight-forward user experience – the browser renders a “Browse” or..."
Read more » Uploading a Variable Number of Files from an ASP.NET Web Page
Scott On Writing | 22 Nov 2011 01:11
Scott Mitchell writes "....One of ASP.NET MVC’s most useful features is its powerful templating system. Templates were introduced with ASP.NET MVC 2 as a way to have the view render either a display- or editing-related user interface for the entire model or for a property of..."
Read more » Using Templates to Display Boolean Values as Yes/No Options
Scott On Writing | 30 Sep 2011 16:16
Scott Mitchell writes "....While I like to consider myself a web developer, every now and then I have to put on my DBA hat to address some SQL related issue. This little script has saved my butt more than once. It searches the text of triggers, UDFs, stored procedures and..."
Read more » Searching SQL Server Stored Procedure and Trigger Text
Scott On Writing | 15 Sep 2011 18:19
Scott Mitchell writes "....On Saturday September 24th I’ll be doing two four-hour ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor training events in San Diego: Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor – (8 AM to Noon) - This four hour morning class introduces ASP.NET MVC 3 and the new Razor..."
Read more » ASP.NET Training in San Diego on Saturday, September 24th
Scott On Writing | 18 Aug 2011 04:28
Scott Mitchell writes "....In conjunction with the Los Angeles .NET Developer's Group I will be presenting a full day, hands-on lab/presentation/training event on ASP.NET MVC 3 Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices on Saturday, August 27th. The event is a 8 hour training with..."
Read more » Full Day ASP.NET MVC 3 Training Event in Los Angeles on August 27th, 2011
Scott On Writing | 24 Jun 2011 23:21
Scott Mitchell writes "....By default, a user can enter any character into a textbox. Masked textboxes help reduce user input error by limiting what characters a user can type into a textbox. Masked textboxes have been a standard user input element in desktop applications for..."
Read more » Creating a Currency Masked TextBox with On-the-Fly Currency Formatting
Scott On Writing | 20 Jun 2011 19:52
Scott Mitchell writes "....About month ago at a user group meeting the guy sitting across from me shared the tale of a talk he had attended. The speaker’s laptop had downloaded a slew of Windows Updates in the background, after which the “Restart your computer to finish..."
Read more » A Synchronized Visual Studio Crash
Scott On Writing | 07 Jun 2011 23:10
Scott Mitchell writes "....My latest article on DotNetSlackers looks at how to create Excel spreadsheets using NPOI. NPOI is a free, open-source .NET library for creating and reading Excel spreadsheets and is a port of the Java POI library. In the article I show how to use..."
Read more » Export an ADO.NET DataTable to Excel using NPOI
